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Hand feed the herd, feel how soft a baby alpaca is, take as many photographs as you like and have all your alpaca questions answered!

Meet The Alpacas at The Lakes Distillery

And so it was once upon a time when The Lakes Distillery was the perfect place to live alpacaly ever after! Situated on the River Derwent in a dramatic location, it is surrounded by incredible views of the northern most fells. The Lakes Distillery is the perfect place to come along and Meet The Alpacas!

What to expect

Every Saturday and Sunday at 2:45pm (2:30pm from 1st March onwards) you will have the opportunity to get up close and personal with the alpacas and their babies.

  • Activity takes place at The Lakes Distillery, Near Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth CA13 9SJ.
  • Prices start at £12 per adult, £6 for children 4 – 12yrs and under 4s are free.
  • The activity lasts 30 mins and involves hand feeding the girls on their home field, spending time getting to know the herd and learning lots from the guide!
  • Groups of up to 30.
  • Suitable for all ages and abilities.
  • Site facilities include award winning bistro with outdoor seating, gift shop and free car parking.
  • New babies can usually be seen in late spring/summer.
  • Also accessible by X4 bus.

Please note this activity takes place at the Lakes Distillery, Bassenthwaite Lake CA13 9SJ.

I can’t recommend this activity highly enough, it’s all we’ve talked about since we’ve come home!Previous Guest

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To find out more about the distillery and what they have to offer please visit their website.

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Our approach to these tricky times...

The Woolly Army would like to send you their warmest wishes x

We wanted to contribute to the welfare of us all, and our health care service, by not encouraging unnecessary travel and by adhering strictly to the government’s policies on social distancing. With this in mind we postponed all our activities for the duration of Lockdown.

As the relevant restrictions are now scheduled to be lifted we are delighted to say that we have opened bookings from July 4th onward  (these will be subject to any changes in government policy restrictions at the time).

As a social enterprise whose revenue goes into looking after and rehoming unwanted alpacas and llamas from across the country with 120 animals in our care, our priority has been maintaining the welfare of the alpacas and llamas during this time and as always you have been SO supportive and we couldn’t be more grateful – thank you so much, we wouldn’t be able to do it without you guys x

We want to do our very best by all of you awesome people who have booked activities with us and so have extended our policies so that all bookings (including vouchers) will have a minimum of 18 months from now to reschedule their activity – no rush just get in touch at a later date when everyone’s back on their feet. If you would prefer we can also exchange your booking for a gift voucher that you can gift to someone else or spend in our online shop.

We will continue to keep everyone informed, up-to-date and spamming you all with alpacas and llamas via our social media channels and if there is anything in particular we can help with just email us and we’ll be in touch.

Being outdoors in the fresh air and surrounded by nature is a hugely important part of physical and mental wellbeing and as always the Woolly Army looks forward to sharing this with you again in our beautiful part of the world.

Our sincere thank you for all of your support and our love to everyone in these tricky times X